...the House of Lords solicited an official statement from Indian attorney-general Soli Sorabjee on the Code’s outcomes. Sorabjee’s report was emphatically negative. The Code, he said, had fostered “intolerance, divisiveness,...
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Islamic law as “code”: Language, system, power
April 24, 2018
...in Islamic jurisprudential traditions. Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) is a technology, and the fuqaha (jurisprudents) are programmers, making the law “code” in more senses than one. If the code is a...
April 24, 2018
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George Lakoff on The Obama Code
by Ruth Braunstein...the Obama Code. For the sake of unity, the President tends to express his moral vision indirectly. Like other self-aware and highly articulate speakers, he connects with his audience using...
February 24, 2009
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Competitive theism at the Grammys
by John D. Boy...that popular musicians are actually more likely to be successful if they believe God wants them to be famous. In other words, there’s a belief bonus for those seeking superstardom....
February 13, 2011
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Breivik and “Christianism”
by Amanda Kaplan...during the operation as I have no intention to surrender to them until I have completed all three primary objectives AND the bonus mission. When I initiate (providing I haven’t...
July 26, 2011
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Skyping secularism: Religion and multiple modernities
by Thomas Alberts...family code was debated hotly after independence, with women’s groups and Muslim authorities disagreeing on a range of issues. The family code is essentially a set of laws that regulates...
August 9, 2010
Sex and the Catholic Church: What does law have to do with it?
Canon fodder
March 5, 2019
...another to allow its tentacles into the Church itself. To combat that tendency, the Church has struggled to centralize its own internal codes. Most importantly, a Code of Canon Law...
March 5, 2019
Religion, spirituality, and democratic renewal: Essays from our grantees
Welcoming the stranger at home
November 9, 2023
...that ostensibly derives its guiding values from the Bible could evince political positions so opposed to biblical directives to “welcome the stranger.” Stories with headlines such as “The Bible Says...
November 9, 2023
The headscarf controversy
Gender equality and Islamic headscarves
by Joan Scott...long denied women the right to vote and its civil code enforced male prerogatives over women in families until well into the twentieth century. The Turkish republic (a one-party state...
February 10, 2008
Uprising in Egypt
America in the Egyptian revolution
by Atef Said...state-owned factory, Al-Mahala Al-Kobra Misr Spinning and Weaving, went on strike after learning that their annual bonus had been cut. Not only was the strike successful in reinstating the bonuses,...
April 11, 2011